Now, they're telling us that they won't listen to Quebec's requests because they want to rush to help francophones outside of Quebec, but that's not working.
I'd like to quickly come back to that point. It is very important to consider the Quebec government's demands. It is the only francophone state in America. All the federal government has managed to do is say that anglophones are the minority in Quebec and that it will support them with a series of official language programs in health and education, among other things.
When the Official Languages Act was established in the 1960s, anglophones were the dominant class and elite in Canada, even in Quebec. Their institutions were in the majority and overfunded.
With the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, the Quebec government began to wake up. As a result, the federal government decided to help francophone and Acadian communities. For a long time and over several generations, these communities had been prohibited from teaching French. Statistics Canada figures showed that 70% of francophones outside Quebec had been assimilated. A movement originating in English Canada had actually risen up in opposition to the collecting of this data.
Now we decide to help—